On January 9-10, 2017, Spencer k. Koerner, Vice-President and Medical Director of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, visited our school. SUSTech Council Chairperson Guo Yurong, President Chen Shiyi and Vice-President of Education Wu Chuanyue met with the delegation.

Guo yurong welcomed the delegation from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and introduced the development history, vision, faculty and personnel training of our school.

Chen Shiyi noted that this visit is very important for the establishment of cooperation between the two sides, and an important step in the construction of medical school of SUSTech.

On January 10, Xu Yong, Director of Shenzhen Medical Ceter attend the meeting with Cedars-Sinai delegation and SUSTech Medical School Planning Committee. Wu Chuanyue chaired the meeting.

About Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center is a non-profit, tertiary 958-bed hospital and multi-specialty academic health science center located in the Beverly Grove neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. Cedars-Sinai focuses on biomedical research and technologically advanced medical education—based on an interdisciplinary collaboration between physicians and clinical researchers. The facility has research centers covering cardiovascular, genetics, gene therapy, gastroenterology, neuroscience, immunology, surgery, organ transplantation, stem cells, biomedical imaging and cancer—with more than 800 research projects underway.